The Vital Signs Project aims to incorporate matters of building physical performance into the education of architects. We seek to instill in architecture students a fundamental awareness about the numerous ways in which their design decisions affect a building's physical performance--from energy use, to indoor environmental quality, to occupant well-being.

This set of pages provides a concise description of our Project, and introduces our methods and goals. Read on to find out more about Vital Signs.
Project Brief Contents

1. Architecture and Energy Use
2. Vital Signs Resource Packages
3. Building Case Studies
4. Work in Progress
5. The Future of the Vital Signs Project

Project Administration

The Vital Signs Project is administered through the Center for Environmental Design at U.C. Berkeley, 390 Wurster Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. You can reach Cris Benton, the project's principal investigator at (510) 642-0669.  Address e-mail to crisp@socrates.berkeley.edu. 

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Created: 09/16/97
Revised: 09/09/02

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